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Show HI I SALT LIE SL1BYIMN01 PERSOW A blow which caused a fracture at the base of the skull and which was inflicted by a blunt instrument, evidently evi-dently with murderous intent, caused tho death of Daisy Collins, a woman well known to the local police, whose lifeless body was tound yesterday afternoon lying in a pool of blood at the foot of her bed in n room at 260 W. First South. That the Collins woman wns murdered Is the opinion of Dr. Hnrdie Lynch and Dr. H. B. Sprague, who conducted an autopsy last night. Al Dumire, a hotel porter, who is said by tho police to have lived with the Collins woman as her husband for more than a year, is under arrest. lie will be held until after the police have made a thorough Investigation. Dumire Du-mire professes his innocence, but admits ad-mits having lived with the woman for several months. He said he had not seen her for ten days Dumire was closely questioned by the police. Inspector Carlson stated that If he can prove his assertions he will have a good alibi. Dumire explained ex-plained his actions up to a certain time, but the police are at a loss to know when the woman came to her death He has been stopping at the Nevada house on Main street and was with several persons from C o'clock Monday night until he was seen to enter his room at 10-30. Polish on Face. The body was found about 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Dr. H. B. Sprague was summoned and said that she had been dead twelve or fourteen four-teen hours A mystery which has so far baffled the police was the fact that the woman's face was smeared with a black substance which was later lat-er found to be stove polish. A small stove In the room showed no evidence that she had struck it with her head. The stove had been recently re-cently polished, but for the fact, how-e how-e er, that no polish was found on her hands, the police believe that the finger fin-ger marks which smeared the stuft over her face were those of another person. The seat of a heavy kitchen chair found in the room was broken. This may have caused the woman's death, as it was the only blunt weapon found in the room which, according to Dr. Sprague, could have caused the fracture frac-ture in the back of her head without breaking the scalp. The woman was fully dressed and from the condition of the room and her clothing it is thought she was preparing prepar-ing to go out or had just returned. The bed had not been disturbed and the position of the furniture indicated that if a struggle "had tak.en place it had not been of great violence. A coal oil lamp was still burning on a dressing table when the body was found. A cloth on a table in the center cen-ter of the room was saturated v,ith c&al oil. It is thought that in a struggle strug-gle the lamp was upset and the oil spilled on the table and that the lamp was later lighted again and placed on the dresser. Fall Did Not Kill. Coroner L. R. Martineau, Jr.. ordered order-ed the autopsy. After discussing the circumstances surrounding the woman's wo-man's death, A. V. Watkins, assistant county attorney, and Coroner Itfarti-neau Itfarti-neau announced that an inquest would be held. Both Dr. Sprague and Dr. Lynch stated after the autopsy that It would have been impossible for death to have been caused by a fall. Although the force of the blow was at the back of the head, the fracture started near the right ear, and extended backward. The scalp was unbroken but the blow had caused a hemorrhage and tho woman had bled freely from the ears. Several bruises were found on her shins. She Is thought to have been kicked or received them during a scuffle. |
